The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-02-26
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THE March pension roll calls for s1s, 7s0,.
OOO.
The Canadian Parliament will meet on
April Z.
KANSAS has voted municipal suffrage to
women.
A NEW theory is that lock-jaw is con-
tagious.
FLORIDA is shipping her spring tomatoes
northward.
WITHIN the tropics the winds blow from
east to west.
A NEW white, gauzy dress stun is lightly
called angels wings.
THE United States Colleges contains 49,
OC0 female students.
NEW. York CITY consumes s17 900
worth Of milk every year.
Six new counties are to be carved out OF
Tom Green County, Texas.
HoTHousE Strawberries are selling in
Boston at thirty cents each.
CHRISTINE NILSSON was married to Count
Casa Miranda, q few days ago.
CLUMSY Nashvillian has dropped wad
OF 1850 into sewer, irretrievably.
THERE is little probability of decision
in the big telephone suit before next fall.
BILL to give convicts college educn-
tion is before the Wisconsin Legislature.
In Kentucky last year nearly 100000
bushels more of corn were raised than in
1885.
Two thousand eight hundred divorces
were granted in the United States last
year.
THE Emperor of China has expressed
great desire to taste Mclean porkee.
beanee.
BoTH houses of the Nevada Legislature
have adopted resolutions disfranchising
Eormons.
A GROSS of steel pens, once costing thirty
five dollars, may now be produced for
eight cents.
New York girls, tired of the gaieties Of
the season, have turned their hands to
cooking to kill time.
THE pay of member Of the Maine Leg
islature is fixed at $50 for the session, be
1t long or short one.
EMMETT BORDERS, q sixteen year-old boy
of Audubon, Iowa, died recently from ex-
cessive use of tobacco.
The second annual session of the for
estry congress was held at De .Funiak
Springs few days ago.
THE removal of New Orleans Judge for
malfeasance in Office has caused consider
able comment in the press.
UNGER, hero Of the headless corpse
tragedy, seems to be real tender-hearted
assassin. He wept in court.
JOHN BARDEN has been regular sub
scriber of the Rutland (Vt.) Herald, that
paper says, for fifty-nine years.
AT Council Bluffs, Ia, the other day, n
woman was divorced in the morning and
married again in the afternoon.
In attempting to enter the canal at Men
asha, Wis, 140.pound sturgeon grounded
on sandbar and was captured.
Mrs. MACKAY is reported to have ac-
quired brilliant sapphire from needy
Russian prince for the trifle of $15O,0OO.
THE Hawaiian Government has just an
nexed Ocean Island, which is described as
q sandbank !, 200 miles from the Hawaiian
group.
GENERAL MIDDLETON. commander of the
Canadian militia, says it is absurd to talk
of war between the United States and
England.
THE patron saint of Valentine Day was
beheaded. Some writer's of valentine
poetry might appropriately be served the
same way.
WILLIAM L. ScoTT, of Erie, Pa, is said
to be the largest individual coal worker in
the world. He employs 10000 men in min
ing and shipping.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPLoEoN, second son of
Prince Jerome Napoleon (Plon-Plon) has
asked permission to accompany the Italian
troops to Massewah.
SAMUEL MuRFIrr, Of Upton, England,
has just died. He was six feet one inch in
height, measured 100 inches around the
waist and weighed 500 pounds.
THE Duke of Marlborough recently said
that he supposed the only chance left open
to him since he had been so cut by Eng
lish society was to marry an American
heiress.
THERE is dog at Magog, Quebec, that
will mount the toboggan sled, go down the
slide, draw the sled back, and go down
again as many times as his owner COM
mands him.
A BOLD gang Of American thieves is
making big hauls in Canada. There is
retribution in this. Canada has for years
been making big hauls of American thieves,
plunder and all.
IN great storm OF snow and sleet re-
Gently, in England, the wing of rocks froze
fast to their bodies, and hundreds of the
birds were killed by falling from trees,
being unable to fly.
1T is reported from Maine that the Eng
lish sparrows are growing white, as re-
suit Of their becoming acclimated. White
feathers have been often noticed this win
ter on the sparrows.
In Montana during the winter COWBOYS
make living by killing mountain lions,
for which bounty Of eight dollars per
head is paid. The animals are ferocious
and some are very large.
THE marriage of Lulu Hurst, the mag
netic girl of Georgia, to her manager, calls
attention to the fact that almost any girl
with a fortune of 600, 1000 in her own right,
is more or less of magnet.
ALBERT NICKERsoN, twelve-year-old
lad Of Sag Harbor, daily sits down to the
table with his father and mother, grand
father and grandmother, and great-grand-
father and two great-grandmothers.
SIR LIONEL WEST, British Minister at
Washington, is reported as saying that he
does not anticipate any trouble whatever
between Great Britain and the United
States concerning the fishery question.
The brother Of Anarchist Spies, who
served the latter as proxy in the Van
Zandt marriage, is now urged to 20 a step
further and die for him. He refuses, how